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Atlas of the Senseable City

Atlas of the Senseable City

Picon, Antoine | 2023 | Yale University | 9780300247510

Subject: Political Science


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Review: The Sensible City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge studies innovation in the built environment. In this complex, highly illustrated collection of digital maps, lab co-founder Carlo Ratti and architecture historian Antoine Picon analyse four essential urban dimensions: motion, connection, circulation and experience. Sensible puts the focus on human agency, rather than t...Read More

Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

Allen, Bethany | 2023 | HarperCollins | 9780063057418

Subject: Economics


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In Beijing Rules, Bethany Allen shows in vivid detail (and fluent prose) just how China uses its growing economic heft to protect its core interests. The most sensitive of these are, as one might expect, geopolitical: Beijing's controversial rule over Hong Kong, Tibet and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (home to the Uyghurs), as well as its territorial claims in the South China Sea and its revanchi...Read More

Blight Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Blight Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Monosson, Emily | 2023 | W. W. Norton & Company, | 9781324007012

Subject: Science and Technology


Source: The New York Times

Review: Like The Last of Us, the entertainment franchise in which a fungal pandemic turns people into zombies, Blight emphasizes the scary things that fungi can do in this case, especially to plants and trees.Read More

Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

McKenzie, Ben | 2023 | Abrams books | 9781419766398

Subject: Economics


Source: Financial Times

Review: McKenzie, famous for his role in the drama The O.C., provides a gripping write-up of his personalnjourney to unveil what he considers to be the con underpinning the crypto world. From meetingsnwith the CIA to an engrossing interview with Sam Bankman-Fried, McKenzie shows he is equallyncomfortable with economics and investigative journalism, as he is with Hollywood....Read More

Elixir : A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

Elixir : A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

Levitt,Theresa | 2023 | Harvard University Press | 9780674250895

Subject: History


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Review: Alchemists once maintained that there was an essence that distinguished living matter from non-living. Chemist Antoine Lavoisier repudiated this in the 1780s, but decades later, douard Laugier and Auguste Laurent were unconvinced. Historian Theresa Levitt skilfully dramatizes how they worked by day in a Paris perfume house, distilling natural essences and creating scents; by night, they investigat...Read More

Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

Houston, Keith | 2023 | W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393882148

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In 1976, Steve Wozniak sold his HP-65 programmable calculator for $500 to start a computer company with Steve Jobs. It wasn't a huge sacrifice. As a calculator engineer at Hewlett-Packard, he knew that the HP-67 was on its way and, with his employee discount, he could buy one for $370. His more highly prized gadget was the HP-35 the world's premier scientific calculator and his inspiration for goi...Read More

Goodbye, Eastern Europe

Goodbye, Eastern Europe

Mikanowski, Jacob | 2023 | Penguin Random House | 9781524748500

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: East Germany, though essentially occupied by the Soviet military, harbored people with rich and animated personal lives. Poland and Hungary were places of relative political freedom, where I enjoyed many unforgettable late-night student bull sessions. Czechoslovakia was, like East Germany, repressive, but stunning in its Gothic and baroque majesty, conjuring an enlightened past made more palpable ...Read More

Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest Waterway

Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest Waterway

Sullivan, Randall | 2023 | Atlantic Monthly Press | 9780802162403

Subject: General


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: In Graveyard of the Pacific, Randall Sullivan notes that the mouth of the Columbia River, which lies roughly 700 miles north of San Francisco on the Oregon-Washington coast, is one of the most perilous waterways in the world. As it winds its way south from British Columbia, Canada, the 1,200-mile river flows through four mountain ranges and acts as the confluence of several major rivers the Snake,...Read More

Here Begins the Dark SeanVenice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World

Here Begins the Dark SeanVenice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World

Small, Meredith Francesca | 2023 | Pegasus Books | 9781639364190

Subject: History


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Around 1450, the Venetian government commissioned a monk named Fra Mauro to make a mappa mundi, a map of the world. His map is a circle nearly 7 feet in diameter, crammed with illustrations and annotations; the work took several years. When it was done, it was the most detailed and accurate map of the known world that anyone had yet made....Read More

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

deBoer, Fredrik | 2023 | Simon & Schuster | 9781668016015

Subject: Political Science


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: Viruses were unknown to Charles Darwin. They were discovered to be a source of infection in the 1890s, and named with the Latin for poison. But, as virus ecologist Marilyn Roossinck stresses, not all are agents of disease: some benefit their hosts by helpRead More

In Light-Years There's No Hurry

In Light-Years There's No Hurry

Heemstra, Marjolijn van | 2023 | Penguin Random House | 9780593792544

Subject: General


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Review: Dutch space reporter Marjolijn van Heemstra is also a poet, novelist and playwright. This translation of her highly personal meditation on the Universe reflects lyrically on the fact that the atmosphere signifies a boundary, whereas space appeals to our notion of boundlessness. She notes a growing difference of opinion between those who see space exploration as irresponsible because our planet is ...Read More

Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience

Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion, and Experience

Boddice, Rob | 2023 | Wiley | 9781509550548

Subject: Psychology


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Review: Academically trained author Rob Boddice experienced agonizing neck pain as a teenager, with patchy medical treatment. This has continued to trouble his adult life as he says in his ambitious history of pain, drawing on numerous periods and societies. The book underlines pain's complexity, arguing that research into it must involve the humanities and social sciences to understand pain's experientia...Read More

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom To Modern Magic

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom To Modern Magic

Winchester, Simon | 2023 | William Collins | 9780008484392

Subject: History


Source: Telegraph

Review: Each Voyager spacecraft carries audio-visual discs which contain, among other recordings, clips of different sounds, including some songs by Blind Willie Johnson, a Black American gospel blues singer. Johnson died penniless, and his grave is unmarked. He may not be remembered a few hundred years hence on Earth but an intelligent alien civilisation, it is hoped, would know him and his music. This r...Read More

Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

Rawson, Jessica | 2023 | Penguin Random House | 9780241472705

Subject: History


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Review: When constructing monumental tombs thousands of years ago, the Egyptians built up with their pyramids whereas the Chinese built down, writes sinologist Jessica Rawson. The geology of China's dry Loess Plateau permitted the excavation of shafts more than 10 metres deep. These tombs were filled with objects for the afterlife. Rawson's majestic history explores 11 such monuments and one large sacrifi...Read More

Marginlands: Indian Landscapes On The Brink

Marginlands: Indian Landscapes On The Brink

Rao, Arati Kumar | 2023 | Pan Macmillan | 9789395624435

Subject: Enviornment


Source: Telegraph

Review: The book is a deeply-felt account of India,s rich biodiversity and the close relationship that local communities share with their landscapes. Simultaneously, it is also an unsparing critique of our current model of development, which discounts local knowledge and prioritises top-down technical solutions.nnKumar-Rao's book is full of instances where development fixes, such as the canal projects in ...Read More

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

Wallace, Jennifer Breheny | 2023 | Portfolio | 9780593191866

Subject: Psychology


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: A hardworking teenager let's call her Amanda'excels at school. She's a pianist, a varsity athlete, an honor student, and the president of the debate club. She gets early acceptance to an elite university, lands the right summer internships, and, after graduation, secures the job of her dreams. Amanda has run the race; she has hit the mark; she has lived up to her potential and fulfilled the ambiti...Read More

On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy

McIntyre, Lee | 2023 | The MIT Press | 9780262546300

Subject: Political Science


Source: Strategy + Business

Review: McIntyre begins by arguing that seventy years of lies about tobacco, evolution, global warming, and vaccines have brought us to the present moment of heightened disinformation because, throughout history, autocratic leaders and their wannabes have understood that the quickest way to control a population is to control their information sources. He summarizes the history of strategic denialism, desc...Read More

Programmable Planet: The Synthetic Biology Revolution

Programmable Planet: The Synthetic Biology Revolution

Anton, Ted | 2023 | Columbia University Press | 9780231555845

Subject: Science and Technology


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Review: After nearly a decade of effort, researchers at a small biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass., were struggling. Founded by four world-class scientists in 2010, the startup had intended to bioengineer a fragile strip of genetic information, called messenger RNA (mRNA), into medicines for cardiovascular and immunological conditions. But it had little success. In 2013 the company pivoted to using...Read More

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Jay, Mike | 2023 | Yale Books | 9780300257946

Subject: History


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Review: When chemist Humphry Davy ingested nitrous oxide in 1799, dubbing it laughing gas, he became a scientific hero as did psychologist William James a century later, for taking drugs to investigate mysticism. In 1949, the positive term psychonaut was invented for such rebels, says medical historian Mike Jay. Today, it connotes an unacceptable renegade, Jay notes in his provocative, highly readable med...Read More

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